Not exact matches
The first thing that's changed is that Consumer Internet and Genomics are Driving Innovation at
scale In the 1950's and» 60's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley
by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons
systems that used the Valley's first microwave devices and semiconductor components.
For a wide -
scale drone delivery program to be implemented, Michel says, «it'll be necessary to have some form of air traffic management
system for drones, and more advanced regulations, not to mention better, more autonomous technology that is certified
by the aviation authorities.»
As required
by law, the NSA ended its wide - ranging surveillance program
by 11:59 p.m. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday) and expects to have the new,
scaled - back
system in place
by then, the White House said.
Journalism with high civic value — journalism that investigates power, or reaches underserved and local communities — is discriminated against
by a
system that favors
scale and shareability.
In terms of the large -
scale, mass - produced economy, the utility of low - skill human workers is rapidly diminishing, as many blue - collar jobs (e.g., in manufacturing) and white - collar jobs (e.g., processing insurance paperwork) can be handled much more cheaply
by automated
systems.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget has been cut
by 17 percent since 2010, after adjusting for inflation, forcing the IRS to reduce its workforce, severely
scale back employee training, and delay much - needed upgrades to information technology
systems.
They're hampered
by their relatively low status in the political
system, the country's sheer size and
scale, and the varied and often contentious levels of law enforcement.
From the images of the pod's interior, it appears like Dubai's Hyperloop
system would be a comfortable ride as well, as evidenced
by the generous amount of legroom shown in the full -
scale prototype model.
No analysis on how systematic wage arbitrage allowed
by trade globalization between countries of very different income level within an exchange rate
system allowing massive an persistent trade imbalances led to a massive opening up of compensation
scales in developed countries, as well as substantial under - employment.
By pv magazine's own calculations The combination of solar, steel and aluminum tariffs could add $ 0.13 per watt to PV
system prices, an increase of roughly 4 - 13 % depending on the
scale of the
system.
All told, the tariffs will increase the cost of utility -
scale solar projects
by about 10 percent and residential rooftop
systems by just 3 percent — raising them roughly to prices seen two years ago.
Project EmpowerMD, a research collaboration with UPMC, aims to create an AI - powered
system that can capture and integrate medical expertise at
scale by listening and observing doctors doing their work as they meet their patients.
Total solar capacity in California (including both distributed and utility -
scale systems) has grown from less than 1 GW in 2007 to nearly 14 GW
by the end of 2016.
For those of you who've followed me on twitter @sfemerick or read my blog or book, The Most Powerful Brand on Earth, you know I believe the most successful brand advocates are those who gain visibility and trust
by sharing their expertise, and the most successful brands are those who build
systems around these experts to align and
scale impact for the brand.
I explained that the driver of this change in the Fed's toolbox was the fact that the massive quantity of reserves injected into the banking
system by QE (Quantitative Easing) meant that it would no longer be possible for the Fed to hike the FFR in the traditional way, that is, via the sort of small -
scale shrinkage of bank reserves that was used in the past.
However, despite Google's aims, the web is still not entirely altruistic and the link economy survives — guest posting for cash, infographic posting for cash, and blog posts for cash will always be
systems at least partially supported
by Google if done efficiently and without the laziness that previously occurred at
scale in past years.
My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary financial events of September and October 2008 — several large financial failures, large -
scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking
systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share markets — were all observed in real time
by households and businesses right around the world.
The
system ranks citizens based on trustworthiness, a
scale influenced
by things like what...
Both offer large
scale systematic accounts of the nature of reality in general, largely dismissing the suggestion that the only world we can know is one whose main structure is determined
by the human cognitive
system and which, therefore, only exists for us.
Culturally sustained «life worlds» — traditional ways of living — have long been «colonized» (or invaded, or occupied)
by different aspects of «the
system:» government bureaucracy, large -
scale economic enterprise and powerful media combining to control or lives.
... if Man organizes himself gradually on a global
scale in a sort of closed circuit, within which each thinking element is intellectually and affectively connected with every other, he will attain to a maximum of individual mastery
by participating in a certain ultimate clarity of vision and extreme warmth of sympathy proper to the
system as a whole.
We can choose to support a more equitable and sustainable food
system by purchasing local, organic or small -
scale produced food as well as adopting a plant - based diet, low in animal products - which have the highest eco-footprint.
This includes an internal WHO Code Ombudsman
System that allows Nestlé employees to alert the Company on potential non-compliance with the WHO Code, regular internal audits of the Company's subsidiaries» formula marketing practices as well as independent external audits in case of multiple, broad
scale allegations about non-compliance with the WHO Code
by Nestlé.
But eventually Brown and Alistair Darling were forced to act in extraordinary and unprecedented ways
by the sheer
scale of the crisis, which threatened the viability of the whole banking
system and the economy.
The reality is that any changes to the welfare
system on such a radical
scale will have some unforeseen consequences, but these can be short in duration and can be dealt with
by transitional measures.
«We still have a judicial
system that is supposed to be blind, but that all too often finds the
scales of justice tipped
by resources or race,» Cuomo wrote.
If he is successful in championing the Yorkshire - wide proposal designed
by local authorities across the region, we could see an important shift in the devolution agenda in England — from a top - down to a bottom - up
system, built on economic as well as identity motifs and with a much wider, regional
scale.
The Finance Act 1910 replaced the earlier
system with the «Road Fund tax», based on a
scale of liabilities based on horsepower rating, formulated
by the Royal Automobile Club and subsequently referred to as the «Treasury rating».
He even goes much further than Labour ministers ever dared
by using the «R» word (redistribution) and spelling out exactly what he means — «a tax
system that means people at the bottom end of the
scale pay less and at the top end of the
scale pay more».
By late 2012, it adds, «the department had largely stopped developing
systems for national roll - out and concentrated its efforts on preparing short - term solutions for the pathfinder» (the small
scale trial of the
system).
Fascinated with the idea of building better AI
systems by incorporating visual intelligence, Kunda and her graduate students set about identifying the building blocks of visual thinking, experimenting with object rotation,
scaling and combining.
Designed and built
by BitScope and distributed
by SICORP, the Pi Cluster Modules enable developers to build,
scale and test software before launching it on Trinity, Crossroads, and other large
systems.
Around 1918 Weyl attempted to modify general relativity so that it would not require absolute measurements of
scale or distance — so that it would abide
by an entirely relative
system, again akin to that of Mach.
While large -
scale climate research models offer a
systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector
by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.
Pöschel explains: «
By using a new
system of kinetic equations and the relevant
scaling methods, we were able to depict the dynamics of particle aggregations in granular gases reliably for the first time.
By linking digital processors, storage
systems and software on a global
scale, grid technology is poised to transform computing from an individual and corporate activity into a general utility
For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized
by the best - selling book
by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large -
scale, irreversible change occurs in the
system under study.
Similar emissions are caused
by the iron, aluminum, and copper mines needed to produce material for renewable
systems, Hertwich noted, but the massive
scale of coal mining makes its emissions much more significant
by comparison.
Because only a
system allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and if we don't enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things
by way of energy efficiency or clean power and conservation, you'll never ever achieve the
scale of change we need, to address the problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, petro - dictatorship etc.,
With a vertical spatial resolution of 10 meters, the new
system could measure small -
scale wind phenomena such as wind shear and the wake turbulence created
by an aircraft.
Lozier (p. 1507) discusses how recent studies have challenged our view of large -
scale ocean circulation as a simple conveyor belt,
by revealing a more complex and nuanced
system that reflects the effects of ocean eddies and surface atmospheric winds on the structure and variability of the ocean's overturning.
This was enabled
by creating autonomous robots designed to operate in large groups and to cooperate through local interactions and
by developing a collective algorithm for shape formation that is highly robust to the variability and error characteristic of large -
scale decentralized
systems.
In the current tests of the two - story, 22 - foot - tall structure, the researchers are studying the behavior of full -
scale seismic safety
systems made from advanced wood materials — including rocking walls, which can rock during a temblor and then re-center back
by itself, and a mass timber floor designed to withstand strong earthquakes.
And as I said the
scales fell off from my eyes; I read every chapter with enormous fascination and I was also fascinated
by the fact, this was Martin's second edition, and in his preface to it, he said that when the first edition it come out he was inundated
by letters from enthusiastic people who said to him that they loved every chapter of his book except for one, and they would always pick [out] the ones that, their favorite crackpot belief
system was being attacked, and then they would say they were so happy to see all the others destroyed.
One main issue discussed in the correspondence is how to view the needed «transformation» of the global energy
system: Does transformation mean we can make a major dent in emissions
by just
scaling up existing technologies, or do we need some profound breakthroughs?
So, with his wife's blessing and working
by candlelight, this self - taught polymath embarked on an ambitious construction project to transform his bedroom ceiling into a working
scale model of the Solar
System, or orrery.
«Placing these results on the larger
scale of socio - economic
systems makes evident to what extent nature supports our individual and community well - being
by providing ecosystem services for free,» said one of Endreny's co-authors, Professor Sergio Ulgiati of University Parthenope of Naples, Italy.
But in an analysis just published in The Electricity Journal, scientists say that much of this problem could be addressed with enhanced energy storage technology or
by developing «hybrid»
systems in which, on a broader geographic
scale, one form of renewable energy is ramping up even while the other is declining.
A strategic focus is to continue to develop computational tools (such as KinomeXplorer, NetworKIN, and NetPhorest) and to deploy these on genome -
scale quantitative data obtained
by, for example, mass spectrometry, genomic, and phenotypic screens to understand the principles of how spatio and temporal assembly of mammalian signaling networks transmit and process information at a
systems level in order to alter cell behavior.
So Ocado and the technology company Cambridge Consultants have developed an entirely new wireless
system that can communicate with each robot up to 10 times a second and could
scale to even larger operations.The new
system uses 4G telecoms technology and broadcasts in the same 5 GHz part of the radio spectrum used
by Wi - Fi.